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If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
Tommy Lasorda
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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
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Thomas Charles Lasorda
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More quotes by Tommy Lasorda
Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
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Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.
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I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it not hard enough and it flies away.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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Grownups have to say 'please,' too.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
Tommy Lasorda
It's still the best game in town because you don't have to be big to play, and everybody plays. Even your grandmother probably played baseball.
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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
Tommy Lasorda
When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.
Tommy Lasorda
I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, Hey, you can't run too much. Or if you're a boxer you say, Hey, you can only box three rounds. It's not right!
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